Book II - Chapter XVII. One Night Quiz — A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Comprehension Quiz: Book II - Chapter XVII. One Night
What event is scheduled for the day after this chapter takes place?
- Doctor Manette's release hearing at the court
- Lucie Manette's wedding to Charles Darnay
- The Manette family's departure from London to Paris
- A formal dinner with Mr. Lorry at Tellson's Bank
Where do Lucie and her father spend the evening before her wedding?
- Inside the parlor of their Soho home by the fireplace
- On a bench in a nearby London public garden
- Under the plane-tree in their quiet courtyard in Soho
- At Tellson's Bank in a private meeting room
What does Lucie say would make her deeply unhappy about her marriage?
- If Charles Darnay were to reveal his true family name publicly
- If the marriage required them to move abroad to France
- If it were to separate her from her father by even a few streets
- If Miss Pross were unable to attend as her bridesmaid
How does Doctor Manette describe his future in relation to Lucie's marriage?
- He says it is uncertain but he trusts God's plan for them
- He says it is "far brighter" seen through her marriage than without it
- He admits it frightens him but he will endure for Lucie's sake
- He says the marriage makes no difference to his prospects
What does Doctor Manette describe doing with the moon while in the Bastille?
- Writing letters to Lucie by the light of the full moon
- Counting how many horizontal and perpendicular lines he could draw across it
- Using it to mark the passing of each month of his imprisonment
- Praying to the moon as though it could hear his desperate pleas
What did Doctor Manette wonder about during his years in prison?
- Whether Lucie's mother had remarried and forgotten him entirely
- Whether his unborn child was alive, and if so, what kind of person it had become
- Whether his fellow prisoners would ever organize an escape attempt
- Whether the French Revolution would come during his lifetime
What is the difference between the two visions of his daughter that Manette describes?
- One appeared in daylight and the other only at night in darkness
- One was a motionless phantom and the other a more real, imagined living child
- One spoke clearly to him and the other communicated through gestures
- One resembled Lucie and the other resembled her mother exclusively
In Doctor Manette's peaceful prison fantasy, what did his imagined daughter show him?
- Legal documents that would eventually secure his release from prison
- A home full of loving remembrance, with his picture and prayers for him
- A ship that would carry them both away from France to England
- Letters she had written to the king begging for his freedom
Who is invited to the wedding besides the immediate family?
- Only Mr. Lorry as a guest, with Miss Pross as bridesmaid
- Mr. Stryver as best man and Miss Pross as bridesmaid
- Several colleagues from Tellson's Bank and Miss Pross
- No guests at all — the ceremony is entirely private
What living arrangement change does the marriage bring?
- Charles and Lucie move to a new home across London
- The family relocates to a larger house in a better district
- No change — they extend their current home by taking the upper rooms
- Doctor Manette moves out so the newlyweds can have the house
Why does Lucie creep downstairs to her father's room at three in the morning?
- She hears strange sounds coming from his room and fears a break-in
- She is driven by "unshaped fears" — an instinctive worry about him
- She wants to tell him something she forgot during their evening talk
- She cannot sleep because she is nervous about the wedding ceremony
How does Dickens describe Doctor Manette's face as he sleeps?
- Completely peaceful, showing no trace of his years of suffering
- Showing a "quiet, resolute, and guarded struggle with an unseen assailant"
- Twisted in a pained grimace suggesting troubled nightmares
- Smiling gently, as if dreaming of the happy day to come
What does the closing image of the chapter describe?
- Lucie weeping softly as she returns to her own bedroom
- Doctor Manette waking to find Lucie's candle still burning by his bed
- The shadows of the plane-tree leaves moving across the Doctor's face at sunrise
- Charles Darnay arriving at the house early in the morning light
What does Dickens say about moonlight early in the chapter?
- That it is a sign of good fortune on the eve of a wedding
- That it is "always sad, as the light called human life is — at its coming and its going"
- That it illuminates the truth that people hide during the day
- That it is particularly beautiful over the city of London in summer
What does Lucie's late-night visit to her father's room foreshadow?
- Doctor Manette's decision to reveal Charles Darnay's real identity
- The family's eventual journey to Paris during the Revolution
- Doctor Manette's psychological relapse into shoemaking after the wedding
- Lucie's own future imprisonment during the Reign of Terror
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